so its pink. i'm dealing so should you.

so i'd like to start with the comment that my tastes are changing with my old age. i like this colour, its not prom queen/bublegum/'oh-em-gee that boy is cute' pink. its nice, vintage and romantic (damnit jason do you get it now?) lol. and that takes care of that.

this blog might actually go on for a while depending on how much detail etc i'm going into.. could be a new start on a theme for the blog. as you can probably tell it hasnt gone all that far yet.

anyway i've been pretty much devouring books over the last few months, mostly those of Chuck Palahnuik. yesss i spelled it right the first time. high fives for me. I have read; An Oral History Biography of Buster 'Rant' Casey, Lullaby, Invisible Monsters, Choke, Diary and Survivor. They are all pretty much amazing.

The interesting aspect that appears in all of the novels I've read so far, is his incredible use of repetition. In each novel there is a constant leimotif so to speak throughout. In Survivor he tells the reader about ways to clean and fix things, in Choke he cannot find the perfect word to describe something, but states that its "the first thing to come to mind," in Diary the main character copes through alcohol so whenever something goes wrong, she tells us to "take a drink". It goes on like that through the narrative. I love it. It creates a close familiarity with the characters, you almost can tell how theyre going to react, and yet are still curious as to the wording. For example at the end of Choke he writes, "Powderkeg. And that is exactly the right word." It is moments like that that bring closure to the narrative even when the story is not complete. The idea of many of his novels is not to tell a complete satisfying story, another example from Choke is (I'm using so many examples from Choke but its good damnit.) straight from the narrator, he says from the beginning that this is not a story where the main character grows and becomes a better person and everything is happily ever after.

The fact that nothing is completely resolved is another strong vein that runs through all of his novels. None have been about a happy ending, its about people's lives being ripped apart and things being shaken to their core, its the "and then what?" Its about dealing, not knowing if its going to be okay and dealing anyway. They're about making do with what you have; with the friends, the family and the you you have. Not making it better and many times making it worse. From Lullaby, the main charater Carl Streator (yeah i remembered that, weiiird.) makes perfect models of buildings, and then stomps them to the ground in his bare feet and so through out the book his feet are infected and hurt. From Invisible Monsters, she gives the man she loves estrogen and ruins his body, just like she destroyed herself. Mostly, Mr. Palanhiuk wants us to think, to forget the things that keep us safe and distracted. He wants to show us ourselves, all the conspiracies, lies, and half-truths we perpetuate. For example, the Tooth Fairy in Rant; Buster finds gold coins and gives it to his classmates and tells them to tell their parents the Tooth Fairy gave it to them. The town got rich and the parents could never tell the children that the Tooth Fairy wasnt real.

So that's my semi-review of a chunk of Chuck Palanhiuk's work (ps try saying that outloud, people will think youre having a stroke). I completely recommend it, even just to get the random pieces of information. But dont come crying to me if you end up in the hospital with a spider/small animal bite. I'm not the one recommending that. It is an interesting result though ;). read it. we'll laugh. I'll wait, take your time.

That's all for today folks. Hopefully it was coherent. Tomorrow if I have time and energy I might do something on the Dexter series by Jeff Lindsay.

Night.


ps. love you Court-nee, see you in almost 16days :D!